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Thomas Sowell

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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